Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken